Get your scoops in Rice Village, the first location for the shop in Texas. By Timothy Malcolm 12/16/2020 at 10:08am New York-based Van Leeuwen Ice Cream has announced it's landing in Houston, specifically Rice Village, according to an announcement Wednesday. The first Houston site for Van Leeuwen will be at the former Steel City Pops site at 2565 Amherst St, and it's slated to open in the spring. Van Leeuwen, which started as a food truck in the Big Apple back in 2008, has 30 flavors of both straight-up dairy and vegan ice cream, like chocolate fudge brownie and cookie crumble strawberry j...